Magic Theatre has announced it will launch its 47th season with a legacy revival production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Buried Child. In 1978 the play’s world premiere was held at Magic.
The production is directed by producing artistic director Loretta Greco and will run September 11 – October 6, 2013 at Magic Theatre in San Francisco (at the Fort Mason Center).
Buried Child won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright.
Shepard’s play depicts the fragmentation of the American nuclear family in a context of disappointment and disillusionment with American mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown and the breakdown of traditional family structures and values.
Stark Insider last covered a production of Buried Child at San Jose Stage Company where it played in 2012.
As we like to say around here: Let the show begin…
Buried Child
MAGIC THEATRE
By Sam Shepard
Directed by Loretta Greco
Featuring Patrick Alparone, Denise Balthrop Cassidy, Elaina Garrity, Rod Gnapp, Patrick Jones, Lawrence Radecker, and James Wagner
September 19 – October 6, 2013
Tickets $20-65
Buried Child